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Letters Patent No. 68,056, dated August 27, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN CULTIVATORS.

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TO ALL WHOM I'l MAY CONGERN:

De it known that I, REUBEN N. EBY, of Upper Leacock township, in thecounty of Lancaster, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new anduseful Improvement en a Cultivator and Seoder Combined; and IV do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe construction and operation of the same, reference being had to theannexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figurel is a perspective view of my cultivators attached.

Figure 2,V a top or plan view of the same.

Figure 3, a side elevation.

Figure 4, oneof the cultivators with chain, lever, and forwardattachment shown.

Figure 5, the sc'oringshovelsI to replace the cultivators, for plantingtwo rows of corn.' Figure 6 illustrates the action oflrmyshifting-levers for moving the cultivators simultaneously to the rightor left. l v

The nature of my invention consists in providing a cultivator to operateon each side Ioifthe row, and so under command that if the horsesdeviate in their walk, as they usually do, thedriver has full vview ofthe corn, and the cultivators can be guided so as not to be drawn intothe row nor too far from it on tlieother side, iinishing a row and ahalt' (or rather two halveslat a time, and also, by making a simplechange, using the implement or machine for scoring and planting.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, it isonly necessary to inspect the draw? ings, which clearly show its generalfeatures, which I will more fully proceed to explain. v I claim nonovelty in the two-wheeled carriage or truck, with the seed-Hoppers,crank, and pulley arrangement in itself considered, nor in the plan ofmy cultivators, with or without Scrapers, barrow-teeth, or the like.Such cultivators, of various forms, are common. y

The novelty of my invention consists in the application of two separatecultivators (g.4) to an adjustable bracket, D, on the forwardcross-piece B of a two-wheeled truck, the central-beam 2 passing througha slot, in which it hasplay, by its prolonged end E, and is held by aheaded screw-bolt and nut, as shown'by g/l. A

vertical lever, N, on a horizontal lever, M, to which a chain is fixedby a hook, and connected with the central beam of the cultivator on eachside for raising them out oi' the soil. I also have acompound lever,that is, two verticalrods, of, extending down between the beams of theeultivators and rising upwards, audiconnected by a cross-piece, R, onpivots. These uprightsare hel'd each by a pivot on the rear of the axleTheir action is illustrated by iig. 6. The dotted lines show theirmotion tothe right and left for shifting the cultivators, with which thelower ends of #come in contact. The driver, seated on S, with the handleQ of the pivoted lever'at hand, can clearly seeithe row 'of corn beneathhim, and cectually guide the cultivators, no=

matter how muchy the horses deviate 'from a straightforward path betweenthe rows, drawing the adjusted cull tivators and keeping.themI inline,thereby making more uniform and better work; and found to be trulyadesirable feature in the field; my truck being provided with astrap-pulley, G, on the axle of the wheel adjoim' ing the hub, and acrank-rod, c, .with reversed crank-loops and-strap-pulley E, togetherwith connecting-rods D, slidc-valves V, double lloppers H, with `elastichose 7L. These maybe Va fixture, and are by no means in the way' of thecultivator, (or the hoppers may be easily removed by drawing thescrew-bolts.)

When itis desirable 'tc-(score and plant,it is only necessary to removethclcultivators, shift the brackets D to the outer holes, and yconnectthe scoring-boots,(iig. 5,) adjust the hose or tube li, and belt for thepulleys, and the machine is ready for seating and planting two rows ofcorn at one operation. As a corn-planter, in itself considered, it maypresent. n'o ,special novelty, except so farf'as the boots or shovels:z: on thebcanis z, and slettedcross-piecc z, and itsapplication to thebrackets D is concerned, as a new arrangement of parts. y

What I deem novell, `is the morlcof operating two separate cultivatorsby means of the levers IR r r, and the facility of convertir; themachine into afplauter, and for performing the oilice of scraper,barrow, and cultivator without a complets orfexpensivc alteration, and.to furnish the farmer with an implement that is greatly needed formaking Ineat? 'and goodwork. When the corn is small I employ a simplel1arrow-tooth in the' beam next the row, on each'cultivator,"instcad ofthe shovels, which throw more 'soil than is needed when the corn is yetsmall.

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What I claim as my invention,

as Constructed and arranged, for shifting two eultvators in unison, forthe 1. The combined levers R 1 rv,

purpose and substantially in the manner specified.

2. In combination with my combined.shifting-levers R fr r, l also claimtho a D, beneath a two-wheeled truck, subst?.

pplieation et' two separate oulntially in the manner and for the purposespeeiiied.

3. In combination with my adjustable brac scorers 'x rv on the frame ze', when constructed an Wit-l1 the use of thelloppers, crank, andpulleys,

the arrangement of, the combined adjustable r and for the purposespecified, tog-ether ally in the manner shown and set forth.4

REUBEN N. EBY.

kets D, claim d applied in the manne all combined substanti Witnesses:

WM. B. WILEY, JACOB STAUFFER.

